Almost 50,000 workers from 167 countries around the world helped us to clean, sort and label nearly a billion candidate images. Will the need for these data annotators eventually dry up? There are different views on that. Is this future of perpetual human collaboration with AI going to lead us to some ideal where the cars will drive themselves perfectly? Or the robot doctors will know by me from my elbow.
We are used to thinking of artificial intelligence as knowledge generated by machines. The Verge’s Josh Dzieza pulls back the curtain on the vast network of human labor that powers AI.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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